Compositional analysis of ruminal bacteria from ewes selected for somatic cell score and milk persistency
Fig 4
A correlation matrix heatmap between bacterial taxa and milk traits.
OTUs selected by the 2 first components of the sparse least squares analysis; daily milk production (MP), somatic cell score (SCS), daily milk protein contents (PC), daily milk fat content (FC), milk fatty acids (butyric acid (C4:0), caproic acid (C6:0), caprylic acid (C8:0), capric acid (C10:0), lauric acid (C12:0), palmitic acid (C16:0), oleic acid (cis-9 C18:1), conjugated linoleic acid (cis-9 trans-11 C18:2) and α-linoleic acid (C18:3n-3), expressed as % of total fatty acids) and milk proteins, as casein (CN) (αs1-CN, αs2-CN, β-CN, κ-CN, expressed as % of total proteins), and soluble proteins (α-lactalbumin and β-lactoglobulin, expressed as % of total proteins).